Poop in a bag

Have you ever had poop in a bag?  No?  Oh, you're missing out.  Let me back up and explain how I came to be the not-so-affectionate owner of one such bag.

L went to preschool today.  When I came to pick her up at the end of the morning, her teacher said "excuse me, but L had an accident today.  I changed her underwear and put her dirty underwear in a bag in her backpack."  I sighed, rolled my eyes, and said thank you.  I thought, she had an accident this morning too!  WTF is going on?!??  We got in the car, drove home, and I wondered why the backpack was particularly smelly the entire time.

At home, I took the backpack to the kitchen sink, pulled out the plastic bag, opened it up, and out rolled a large piece of poop.  I sh*t you not (ahahahaha!).  The teacher had apparently just tossed everything in the bag.  Shouldn't poop go in the toilet?!?  Isn't that what we are teaching our children?!??  I was shocked, a bit mortified, and appalled that I just spent the last 20 minutes in possession of my daughter's poop in a bag. 

I called the school and asked them what their policy was on kids having accidents at school.  The woman I spoke with said she didn't know, she'd find out.  After several minutes, she comes back to the phone to inform me that yes, it is the school's policy to just put the offending material in a bag for the parent to deal with per the state Department of Health.  Who knows what could be in a child's poop?  Syringes!  Drugs!  Partially digested food!  It could make the teacher catch syphilis, Ebola, or worse yet...cooties. 

To be honest, I'm just appalled and disgusted.  Really?  You're going to send my child's poop home to me in a bag instead of just flushing it down the toilet?!??  Isn't that the most sane and most decent way to handle the situation?  Yes, there is a whole room full of other children, but flushing poop down a toilet doesn't require more than about 10 seconds to do!  L will still go to school there, and she'll still go potty there, but you can be damn well assured that I will not be taking poop in a bag home again.  If she does the same thing again, we will promptly go to the bathroom, check the bag's contents, and then flush away any offending material left in the undies.

The worst part to me for L was that her teacher didn't help her clean up her back side.  Though she had new underwear on, it was quite dirty and smelly and...I felt so bad for her.  We had to bathe her to get her clean again, and luckily she didn't seem to notice/care.  Still!  I don't want her known as the stinky child at school.  Poor kid.  Damn teacher!  *fist*